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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2013 01:41:28 +0400 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r250565 - head/etc
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305130139110.70132@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CAJOYFBCdCQsU5ssf2mnMxOKRLbyz%2BHCMRTTBC9rZA9ha1mjMBQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201305121523.r4CFNxBR055568@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305121952120.44610@woozle.rinet.ru> <CAJOYFBCdCQsU5ssf2mnMxOKRLbyz%2BHCMRTTBC9rZA9ha1mjMBQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Ed,

On Sun, 12 May 2013, Ed Schouten wrote:

> 2013/5/12 Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>:
> > I'm afraid it could produce more harm than goodness on old hardware
> > and/or other architectures like arm.
> 
> Any change we make at FreeBSD may or may not cause problems on old
> hardware and/or other architectures like ARM. It's typically a case of
> trial and error to see what happens.
> 
> In fact, I think that for embedded systems, using xz compression would
> even be better. Many of those systems are often more storage space
> constrained than CPU constrained (e.g. a 200 MHz wireless device with
> only 8 MB of flash).
> 
> I think it's a pity the change has been reverted without bringing any
> hard data to the table.

I would pretty much like more statistics about the issue as well; 
unfortunately, all I have handy are x86 hardware, and most of embedded-like 
systems aer amd64 atoms...

I think some testing should be done on different platforms before making any 
kind of decisions.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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